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VOLUME XC NUMBER 14 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA______________TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1981
DRILL THRILL — Members of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps replenish their memory banks as they look over formation plans at a drill rehearsal.
Fire forces dorm evacuation
Residence West struck by fifth trash-chute blaze; arson suspected
By Ruben Castaneda
SialT Writer
The fifth trash chute fire in a week at Residence West broke out Monday afternoon, forcing evacuation of the building for the second time in 16 hours.
A similar fire late Sunday night also required the dormitory to be evacuated. The fire originated in the building’s trash chute, as did the three previous fires.
Monday’s fire was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system and residents were allowed to reenter the dormitory 20 minutes after the evaculation.
"We've had five or six of this type of fire since the first of the year," said Capt. Gerold Donckels of the Los Angeles Fire Department. “Sooner or later whoever's been setting them is going to step up to something bigger, and somebody's going to get hurt."
The Los Angeles Police Department, the lire department and University Security are investigating the fires, according to Lori Carluccio, manager of Residence West.
“The case is being handled as an arson, which is a felony," Carluccio said.
A university repairman was working on a door at the bottom pf the chute when the fire broke out. the manager said.
The repairman escaped injury, as did everyone who was inside the building at the time of the fire.
Fire department officials later removed the door that was being repaired. “The rubbish chute doors have been closed every time we’ve had a fire here, and I want them open," Donckels said.
"The fact that the door was closed made it easier to
start the fire." the captain added. “Plus, the trash backs up two or three floors. I'd rather have to control the fire on the ground level than fight it two or three flights up.’’
Carluccio said the trash gets picked up twice a day, once on weekends. She also said the trash had been collected just prior to Monday’s fire.
The fire on Monday was the first to occur in the daytime. All others had taken place between 9:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., Carluccio said.
As a preventative measure, water has been poured down the chute every night, according to Rad Domingo, head resident of the building.
"Other than that.” Domingo said, "we haven’t made any commitments to any course of action."
“I'm considering moving to another building next year.” said Tom Sylla, a freshman in industrial systems engineering. “I'm sick of fire alarms. Being awakened at 3 a.m. by a fire alarm was one of the worst experiences I've ever had."
"Before, it was just pulling the alarms as a prank — now they're actually setting fires. Someone may get hurt soon," said Kay Ann Iriguchi, a senior in psychobiology and the resident advisor for the ninth floor.
“This is ridiculous," said resident Katy Smith. “I was in the middle of writing a paper. At least it wasn't at three in the morning.”
“Someone's turning out to be a firebug," said Terry Tuzzolino, an engineer with the fire department. “One of these days it's going to get out of hand and kill
someone.”
2 students write proposal limiting posting of notices to approved bulletin boards, not trees
By Diane Spaeter
Staff Writer
Two students have apparently tired of seeing the university’s grounds wallpapered with “publicity paraphenalia," as they call it, and have written a proposal seeking to limit the posting of notices and posters to approved bulletin boards.
The resolution is supported by the Student Senate.
The students. Edilia Cuevas and Jonathan Mirecki are upset because there are a set of regulations prohibiting pesters on buildings and trees already named, Guidelines for Literature Distribu-
tion. but they are not being enforced.
The proposal emphasizes that posters glued to buildings show a lack of enforcement and the need for stronger penalties.
Cuevas and Mirecki propose the imposition of fines for any individual or organization posting bulletins anywhere bet on bulletin
boards.
However. Paul Escobar, the student senator sponsoring the resolution. forsees problems with the fine system. “It’s open to abuse," he said. "One organization could possibly get back at another organization by posting bulletins-, to get them in trouble. I don’t
think we should impose fines because there's no way to police that," Escobar said.
The Student Senate will vote on the resolution Wednesday evening. “'If it's approved, we'll move to implement it,” Escobar said.
If the proposal passes Escobar expects to see results, "as soon as we receive cooperation from the administration."
Cuevas stressed that “we want to improve the university's grounds because we care. We hope other people do too.” She said their next project would be to clean the university’s elevators of graffiti.
Resource committee: allocations ‘ridiculous’
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
The President's Advisory Council's Resource Management Committee has assessed the current allocation of university funds to be “completely ridiculous”.
The percentage of funds allocated to administration expenditures have increased over the last
10 years while faculty and student expenditures have decreased in the same time period, according to the report.
Administration expenditures in 1970 were 9.6 percent of total university expenditures or S45l per student. This year the administration costs tripled to SI.459 per student or 13 percent of the budget.
“This is totally unacceptable, for it implies that the administration is either three times better or three times more difficult than it was in I97l. In reality it is three times larger,” the committee's reported.
The report divides expenditures into educational and non-educational sections. Administrative expenditures are defined as noneducational costs. Educational expenditures, which include faculty salaries, have decreased by nearly six percent since 1971.
Faculty salaries were 47 percent of the total current expenditures in 1971. This year the percentage has dissolved to 41 percent of the total budget. Faculty members are now receiving a smaller portion of the budget than when tuition was $72 a unit.
The committee projected that as soon as tuition reaches the rate of S200 a'unit. enrollment will drop in severe proportions. As a result, the
committee predicted the educational value of a U.S.C. degree would decline.
It is predicted that within three years noneducational expenditures would exceed educational expenditures.
The Student Senate has been seeking to increase the amount of money going toward student services and they have already worked on resolutions to solve money allocations to the Student Health Center and to the International Students.
“The reason why we had to do that work on the Health Center and the International Students is because Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs, has not been given a big enough piece of the pie." said Andrew Littlefair, undergraduate vice chairman of Student Senate and a member of the PAC Resource Management and Planning Committee.
The committee asked for a breakdown of the administrative expenditures in order to accurately assess what the administration spends its funds on, but the committee is barred from seeing those statistics. *
“No committee is allowed to see those figures. We know that the administration's expenses are not just salaries but programs. We can't tell how much because no one is allowed to see the figures," Littlefair said.
“It’s very typical to blame our inability to get the information on other departments,” Littlefair said.
A proposal drafted by the Senate, which would cut administrative expenditures to (Continued on page 2)
Staff photo by Stephanie Spray
PAPER SHEDDER — This exhibit is typical of the dozens of trees two litter-conscious students are trying to clean up with a student senate proposal.

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VOLUME XC NUMBER 14 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA______________TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1981
DRILL THRILL — Members of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps replenish their memory banks as they look over formation plans at a drill rehearsal.
Fire forces dorm evacuation
Residence West struck by fifth trash-chute blaze; arson suspected
By Ruben Castaneda
SialT Writer
The fifth trash chute fire in a week at Residence West broke out Monday afternoon, forcing evacuation of the building for the second time in 16 hours.
A similar fire late Sunday night also required the dormitory to be evacuated. The fire originated in the building’s trash chute, as did the three previous fires.
Monday’s fire was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system and residents were allowed to reenter the dormitory 20 minutes after the evaculation.
"We've had five or six of this type of fire since the first of the year," said Capt. Gerold Donckels of the Los Angeles Fire Department. “Sooner or later whoever's been setting them is going to step up to something bigger, and somebody's going to get hurt."
The Los Angeles Police Department, the lire department and University Security are investigating the fires, according to Lori Carluccio, manager of Residence West.
“The case is being handled as an arson, which is a felony," Carluccio said.
A university repairman was working on a door at the bottom pf the chute when the fire broke out. the manager said.
The repairman escaped injury, as did everyone who was inside the building at the time of the fire.
Fire department officials later removed the door that was being repaired. “The rubbish chute doors have been closed every time we’ve had a fire here, and I want them open," Donckels said.
"The fact that the door was closed made it easier to
start the fire." the captain added. “Plus, the trash backs up two or three floors. I'd rather have to control the fire on the ground level than fight it two or three flights up.’’
Carluccio said the trash gets picked up twice a day, once on weekends. She also said the trash had been collected just prior to Monday’s fire.
The fire on Monday was the first to occur in the daytime. All others had taken place between 9:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., Carluccio said.
As a preventative measure, water has been poured down the chute every night, according to Rad Domingo, head resident of the building.
"Other than that.” Domingo said, "we haven’t made any commitments to any course of action."
“I'm considering moving to another building next year.” said Tom Sylla, a freshman in industrial systems engineering. “I'm sick of fire alarms. Being awakened at 3 a.m. by a fire alarm was one of the worst experiences I've ever had."
"Before, it was just pulling the alarms as a prank — now they're actually setting fires. Someone may get hurt soon," said Kay Ann Iriguchi, a senior in psychobiology and the resident advisor for the ninth floor.
“This is ridiculous," said resident Katy Smith. “I was in the middle of writing a paper. At least it wasn't at three in the morning.”
“Someone's turning out to be a firebug," said Terry Tuzzolino, an engineer with the fire department. “One of these days it's going to get out of hand and kill
someone.”
2 students write proposal limiting posting of notices to approved bulletin boards, not trees
By Diane Spaeter
Staff Writer
Two students have apparently tired of seeing the university’s grounds wallpapered with “publicity paraphenalia," as they call it, and have written a proposal seeking to limit the posting of notices and posters to approved bulletin boards.
The resolution is supported by the Student Senate.
The students. Edilia Cuevas and Jonathan Mirecki are upset because there are a set of regulations prohibiting pesters on buildings and trees already named, Guidelines for Literature Distribu-
tion. but they are not being enforced.
The proposal emphasizes that posters glued to buildings show a lack of enforcement and the need for stronger penalties.
Cuevas and Mirecki propose the imposition of fines for any individual or organization posting bulletins anywhere bet on bulletin
boards.
However. Paul Escobar, the student senator sponsoring the resolution. forsees problems with the fine system. “It’s open to abuse," he said. "One organization could possibly get back at another organization by posting bulletins-, to get them in trouble. I don’t
think we should impose fines because there's no way to police that," Escobar said.
The Student Senate will vote on the resolution Wednesday evening. “'If it's approved, we'll move to implement it,” Escobar said.
If the proposal passes Escobar expects to see results, "as soon as we receive cooperation from the administration."
Cuevas stressed that “we want to improve the university's grounds because we care. We hope other people do too.” She said their next project would be to clean the university’s elevators of graffiti.
Resource committee: allocations ‘ridiculous’
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
The President's Advisory Council's Resource Management Committee has assessed the current allocation of university funds to be “completely ridiculous”.
The percentage of funds allocated to administration expenditures have increased over the last
10 years while faculty and student expenditures have decreased in the same time period, according to the report.
Administration expenditures in 1970 were 9.6 percent of total university expenditures or S45l per student. This year the administration costs tripled to SI.459 per student or 13 percent of the budget.
“This is totally unacceptable, for it implies that the administration is either three times better or three times more difficult than it was in I97l. In reality it is three times larger,” the committee's reported.
The report divides expenditures into educational and non-educational sections. Administrative expenditures are defined as noneducational costs. Educational expenditures, which include faculty salaries, have decreased by nearly six percent since 1971.
Faculty salaries were 47 percent of the total current expenditures in 1971. This year the percentage has dissolved to 41 percent of the total budget. Faculty members are now receiving a smaller portion of the budget than when tuition was $72 a unit.
The committee projected that as soon as tuition reaches the rate of S200 a'unit. enrollment will drop in severe proportions. As a result, the
committee predicted the educational value of a U.S.C. degree would decline.
It is predicted that within three years noneducational expenditures would exceed educational expenditures.
The Student Senate has been seeking to increase the amount of money going toward student services and they have already worked on resolutions to solve money allocations to the Student Health Center and to the International Students.
“The reason why we had to do that work on the Health Center and the International Students is because Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs, has not been given a big enough piece of the pie." said Andrew Littlefair, undergraduate vice chairman of Student Senate and a member of the PAC Resource Management and Planning Committee.
The committee asked for a breakdown of the administrative expenditures in order to accurately assess what the administration spends its funds on, but the committee is barred from seeing those statistics. *
“No committee is allowed to see those figures. We know that the administration's expenses are not just salaries but programs. We can't tell how much because no one is allowed to see the figures," Littlefair said.
“It’s very typical to blame our inability to get the information on other departments,” Littlefair said.
A proposal drafted by the Senate, which would cut administrative expenditures to (Continued on page 2)
Staff photo by Stephanie Spray
PAPER SHEDDER — This exhibit is typical of the dozens of trees two litter-conscious students are trying to clean up with a student senate proposal.